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EASLCE Quarterly Newsletters

  • Escritos antibélicos [Antiwar Writings] by José Manuel Marrero Henríquez

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    Nopólemo does not take pleasure in the atrocities of war, and for that reason he rejects viewing everyday life as subject to opposing choices—either this or that, black or white, with me or against me, truth or lie, good or bad. Life is blurred and made up of countless shades of gray. The greater the…

    Escritos antibélicos [Antiwar Writings] by José Manuel Marrero Henríquez

  • CFP: ‘Ecopoetry: Compared Perspectives from Anglophone and Francophone Literatures’

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    Date: Friday, October 30th, 2026 Location: Paris 8 University, Maison de la recherche, Amphitheatre MR002 Traditions of ecological and nature writing and poetry about place and the nonhuman vary widely between different countries, cultures, and literary traditions. In the same way, the representation of nature and of relationships between humans and nonhumans in British and French poetry,…

    CFP: ‘Ecopoetry: Compared Perspectives from Anglophone and Francophone Literatures’

  • CFP;Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology

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    Français Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact | Glendon College, York University | October 15-16, 2026 The Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact invites you to an interdisciplinary conference that will explore the ways in which ecology intersects with language contact, cultural transformation, and pedagogical…

    CFP;Resisting Abandonment: Language, Culture, and Ecology

  • Letteratura e Antropocene by Annamaria Elia

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    What happens to literature when the Anthropocene is no longer merely a descriptive category, but a profound transformation of the ways in which we know, feel, imagine and inhabit the world? How can the contemporary novel respond to a crisis that calls into question the boundaries between the human and the non-human, nature and culture,…

    Letteratura e Antropocene by Annamaria Elia

  • CFP: RESILIENCE IN NORDIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE

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    Call for Papers RESILIENCE IN NORDIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE 8th Research Workshop of the Ecocritical Network for Scandinavian Studies (ENSCAN) University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, 10-11 December 2026 Supported by the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Bonn Over the past decades, the concept of resilience has become ever more prominent in environmental…

    CFP: RESILIENCE IN NORDIC LITERATURE AND CULTURE

  • CFP: Speculative Cityscapes: A Speculative Cultures Workshop

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    Cities are sites of crises. With climate disasters, democracy collapses, (neo) colonial and capitalist violence, cities become hubs where the full force of lives in crisis collide: from population density, precarious living conditions, and economic inequalities to toxicity, political movements, and the exploitation of nature to sustain life in the city, disparities become more visible within…

    CFP: Speculative Cityscapes: A Speculative Cultures Workshop

  • Call for Papers: Violence and the Fantastic -17th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic (GfF)

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    University of Cologne | September 17-19, 2026 Violence is an underlying structural element in fantastic narratives. Whether through depictions of intergalactic wars, epic battles, magical duels, monstrous creatures, heroic warriors, dystopian surveillance regimes, apocalyptic landscapes, conquests and systems of exploitation, physical assaults, psychological transgressions, or more subtle forms of abusive power: the fantastic explores violence…

    Call for Papers: Violence and the Fantastic -17th Annual Conference of the Association for Research in the Fantastic (GfF)

  • New M.A. Program “Environmental Humanities” (University of Würzburg, Germany)

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    A new master’s program in “Environmental Humanities” will be starting at the University of Würzburg, Germany, in October 2026. The interdisciplinary program combines concepts, theories, and methods from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences to investigate the historical, cultural, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions of environmental and ecological issues, such as climate change, mass extinction,…

    New M.A. Program “Environmental Humanities” (University of Würzburg, Germany)

  • EASLCE Best Graduate Student Essay Prize – 2026

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    This year’s EASLCE Best Graduate Student Essay Prize has gone to Gabriele d’Amato. He holds a Joint PhD in Literary Studies from Ghent University (Belgium) and the University of L’Aquila (Italy). From October 2026, he will be FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University. Drawing on narrative theory, New Formalism, and the environmental humanities, his publications…

    EASLCE Best Graduate Student Essay Prize – 2026

  • Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland by Katherine M. Huber

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    The environmental impacts of empire on Ireland’s past and future Ireland was Britain’s first colony and its first imperial laboratory—the place where many colonial methods were tested before being exported to the farther-flung portions of the empire. In Irish Ecomedia, Katherine M. Huber examines the environmental impacts of imperial rule and the various ways they…

    Irish Ecomedia: Empire and Environmental Justice in the Modernization of Postcolonial Ireland by Katherine M. Huber